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R. C. MAJUMDAR and A.S. ALTEKAR- A new History of the Indian people— Lahore, 1946.
Vol. vl-- The Vakataka--Gupta Age.
Pp. 365-66. During 550 to 900 A.D. the Buddhists, the Jains, the Saivas and the Vaishṇavas suffered from mutual persecution in South India but during the Vakataka-Gupta period (200 to 550 A.D.) the relations of these sects were fairly cordial in the whole country.
Drahman Nathasarman and his wife Rami of Pundra Vardhana (in Bengal) were pious Hindus but made grants for the worship of Jain Arhats. Kadamba kings Krishņa Varman and Mrigesavarman made grants to a Jain establishment. The Jains used to respect the Hindus and their teachers. The Guptas were orthodox Hindus but the Jainas paid best tribute to their administration.
Pp. 390-394. Jainism. Svetāmbaras convoked two councils at Mathura & Valabhi to settle the correct texts of the sacred writings (313 A.D.), and the settled texts later committed to writing (453 A.D.).
During this period the Jains gave up their prediction for Prākrit and began to write in Sanskrit. Mathura and Valabhi strongholds of the Svetāmbaras and pundravardhana (N. Bengal) of the Digambaras. Jain establishments existed at Kahaum in Gorakhpur district and Udayagiri in Central India. Karnataka and Myrore strongholds of the Digambaras & patronised by the Kadamba and Ganga rulers, Jainism gained firm footing in Tamil country since the early centuries of the Christian era, Naladiyar, Palmoli Nauru and Jivakachintamani-important Tamil Jain works.
392. In 470 A.D. Jains command a special sangam at Madura under the presidency of Vajranandi. Lokavibhaga was composed by Muni Sarvanandi in 458 A.D. in the famous Jain monastry in Patalika (S. Arcot). Kānchi, a famous Jain centre and some of the Pallava and Pandya rulers were Jains. Rivalry between Jainism and Saivism but no mutual persecution during this period. Ritual of Jain worship. Jain procession in the month of Kārtika. The rich patronage to the religion introduced laxity in a section of the Jain monks.
P. 393. According to the Digambaras the only surviving portion of the twelve Angas have been preserved in the Shatkhandāgama, Kashāyapāhuda and Mahabandha-composed towards the end of the 2nd or the beginning of the 3rd
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